Chapter 117

Renqiu Oilfield entered the stage of history ahead of schedule, which is a huge change for North China, China and the whole world.For Song Zheyuan and the 29th Army, this is a double-edged sword. If it is handled well and fully utilized, the strength of the 29th Army will be just around the corner, but if it is not handled properly, it may cause the 29th Army to withdraw from the stage of history early.For the Japanese, it's like a wolf seeing a fat sheep suddenly, trying to make it shut up, is it possible?The Japanese economy was hit hard by the Great Depression of the global economy from 1929 to 1932. Looking at the Japanese newspapers during that period, you can find news about "so-and-so suicide" almost every day-factory closures, workers unemployed, people's lives In stark contrast, the military industrial enterprises have experienced unprecedented prosperity, which made Japan's economic model begin to change to a wartime physique.However, Japan is a resource-poor country, and the abnormal development of its military industry requires a large amount of steel, coal, and oil, all of which must be imported. The "September [-]th Incident" was actually planned by a few fanatics in the Kwantung Army, and the reason why the Japanese government supported it was because of the resources in the three northeastern provinces.Now, there is an oil field in Renqiu, one can imagine what kind of temptation this is for the Japanese who are extremely eager for oil fields?At present, China does not have its own oil industry. For the government of the Republic of China and Chiang Kai-shek, having oil is equivalent to having fuel, and can develop the navy, air force, and tank troops that he dreamed of. The reason why the troops were filled into the cadet brigade, for Ren Qiu, he was determined to win!

History has entered a new orbit, and Ouyang Yun is getting farther and farther away from the original time and space.When he and Liang Dawei were having dinner at a small restaurant in Guangzhou Railway Station, they couldn’t help being stunned when they heard the news of Yidong’s self-government, and said for a long time, “The Japanese are doing it!” Now it is nearly five months ahead of schedule.

Liang Dawei said: "Undoubtedly, the Japanese must be manipulating it behind the scenes. This Yin Rugeng, relying on his Japanese wife, has already automatically sent him to his door and became a lackey of the Japanese!"

"This kind of person should be killed!" Ouyang Yun said, putting down his chopsticks!
Seeing his murderous intent, Liang Dawei smiled and said, "The anti-Japanese heroes want to go back to their old ways?"

Seeing him making fun of himself, Ouyang Yun responded with a smile: "Everyone can get a traitor and punish him. If Brother Liang is interested, I'll leave it to you."

"Officer Zeng and I were sent to Tianjin for the purpose of forming an anti-rape group, but..." Liang Dawei didn't finish his sentence, but Ouyang Yun knew what he was going to say. If it wasn't for his involvement, they would have formed Success will be active in the "Anti-Japanese Anti-Corruption Group" in the Pingjin area.Gu Lianyun's "betrayal" is a blow to Ouyang Yun, what he is most worried about now is that she has controlled Hu Tong, and then uses Hu Tong to coerce the secret service team away.An intelligence agency must be established, and Liang Dawei may be a good candidate. He rescued himself from the gunpoint, seriously violated the order of Lixingshe, and is now forced to board his own ship.He said: "Brother Liang, as long as you are sincere in beating devils and traitors, I don't think the camp is important. After all, we are all Chinese. Even if there are any conflicts between them, they can be resolved behind closed doors. What do you think?"

Liang Dawei hadn't made up his mind about whether he was going to stay or not, so he looked at his watch and said, "There are still 10 minutes until the ticket check, let's go in!"

He paid the bill, and the two of them bought some fruit or something, and then walked to the train station.

At noon, Chu Tiange finally saw Zhang Qingyu at the headquarters of the Yidong special police column [-] in Duolun County.The Yidong special police column, the first column is stationed in the Duolun area, and the second column is stationed in the Tongzhou area.Zhang Qingyu had just rushed back from Tianjin. Although he was exhausted, he heard that the liaison officer sent by Commander Yu had arrived, so he chose to meet him immediately.

As soon as the two met, Zhang Qingyu recognized him and said, "Are you Chu Tiange?"

Knowing that he must have seen his image in the newspaper, Chu Tiange nodded and admitted with a smile. After the two parties received a code, Chu Tiange explained the purpose of his trip and asked him to take time to visit Renqiu. One is to get back the soldiers' pay and equipment, and the other is to see if they can help the student brigade lead the recruits.

Zhang Qingyu was worried about the future of the army, he was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly agreed to come down, and then took Chu Tiange down to inspect the army.Most of the soldiers in the special police column were from the former Northeast Army, and they were strongly disgusted with Japan. The rampant Japanese and puppet troops in the Yidong area had long aroused their dissatisfaction. In addition, Yin Rugeng declared autonomy at this time, and many people thought that they were going to be reduced to Being a puppet army and a traitor, the morale of the army was shaken, which gave Zhang Qingyu a headache.Chu Tiange, as the liaison officer sent by Yu Xuezhong, is equivalent to the role of "special commissioner", who can help to appease the currently wavering military spirit.

Chu Tiange followed Zhang Qingyu all the way to the east along Duolun, and when inspecting the first column, an interesting thing happened in Xianghe County, not far to the east of Beiping!
This day was June 6th. More than 29 people dressed as Chinese farmers, led by 1000 Japanese, staged a demonstration in Xianghe County, distributed leaflets opposing Chiang’s dictatorship and celebrating autonomy, and occupied the county government at noon. He scolded the county government officials as Lao Jiang's lackeys, and wanted to arrest them for a public trial.Chang Wangwang, the magistrate of Xianghe County, had no choice but to ask the Public Security Bureau for help and ask them to send troops to suppress the incident.However, Fang Tianlin, the head of the County Security Brigade, had already signed the treaty in favor of Yidong's autonomy, and the security brigade refused to carry out the order of the County Public Security Bureau. The soldiers went to stabilize the situation, but they were blocked by the garrison in North China under the pretext that the Chinese army was prohibited from entering the ceasefire zone.

Anyone with a discerning eye can clearly see that the incident in Xianghe was manipulated behind the scenes by the Japanese. The reason why they wanted to do this was purely to make it easier for Yin Rugeng to fully control Yidong.Chang Wangwang, the county magistrate of Xianghe County, is a well-known "pro-Chiang element". The day after Yin Rugeng announced Yidong's autonomy, he organized a meeting of celebrities and people of insight in the county to criticize Yin Rugeng's move as a traitorous act.The Japanese were afraid that Chang hoped that this move would cause other counties to follow suit, so they decided to act first to make an example, so they planned the farce above.

On the same day, Lao Jiang met with Qin Dechun at the Meilu Villa in Guling, Lushan.Lao Jiang originally invited Song Zheyuan to meet, but Lao Song was afraid that it would be a grand banquet, so he shirked it because of his health, and let Qin Dechun go instead.

At this time, Lao Jiang summoned Song Zheyuan for three reasons. One was the situation in North China. He hoped that the 29th Army would take the overall situation into consideration and not be fooled by villains and Japanese, and declare autonomy; explain the matter.Of course, both the parties involved and the outsiders knew that it was false to transfer the Xuebing Division to the 51st Army, and it was true to transfer Ren Qiu into the hands of the Nationalist Government.Finally, it expounds the importance and determination of the central government on the reform of legal currency.

The reason why the government of the Republic of China wanted to reform the legal currency was because of the influence of the international financial situation. The economic crisis that broke out in the capitalist world from 1929 to 1932 caused major capitalist countries such as Britain, Germany, Japan, Canada and other countries to abandon the gold standard successively, in an attempt to transfer the crisis to the silver-using countries.The United States responded to this by abandoning the gold standard in March 1933, depreciating the U.S. dollar, and unilaterally violating the "Silver Agreement" adopted by eight major silver-producing and silver-using countries in the world in July 3, and purchasing gold at high prices in the international market. Silver attempted to transfer the economic crisis in the United States to the Chinese people by "increasing the price of silver, that is, increasing the purchasing power of 1932 million people", which directly led to the rise of silver prices in the international market.Because before 7, silver and silver dollars were general commodities in the international market, but they were currencies in China.The rise in the price of silver in the international market led to a large outflow of silver from China, which directly caused the following serious consequences: first, the domestic people panicked; ; Fourth, insufficient currency and falling prices.This directly triggered the silver wave this year, forcing the national government to make changes to deal with it, and decided to reform the currency system, so as to cut off the serious impact of silver price fluctuations in the international market on China's financial market.

The second is to guard against Japan's strategic need to expand its aggression against China. After the "September 1931th" Incident in 39, the Nanjing National Government relied blindly on the League of Nations, fantasizing about resolving the Northeast issue through compromise through international mediation.However, in the face of Japan's disregard for the norms of international law and its aggressiveness (Japan withdrew from the League of Nations and the Treaty on Limiting Naval Armaments for National Defense), it made its defense status even more isolated, and it was besieged economically and politically by the international community. At that time, the countries participating in the siege had Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union), after all, they do not want the Japanese to annex the whole of China.Under such circumstances, Qian Changzhao (the then deputy minister of the Ministry of Education of the Nationalist Government) proposed to Chiang Kai-shek a proposal to organize a national defense design committee.Qian's original intention was positive. He believed that sooner or later Japan would aggressively invade China.In order to prepare for the war as soon as possible and plan ahead, he proposed to organize a special agency and hire a group of scientific and technological experts and professors to engage in investigations, research and formulation of related plans related to national defense construction.Among the first batch of [-] members of the National Defense Design Committee, there were representatives of bankers and financiers such as Xu Xinliu and Wu Dingchang. design".

The third is that with the success of "abolishing the two and changing the yuan", the national government has obtained the technology of legal currency reform.The so-called "abolishing the two and changing the yuan" is an important measure to stipulate that starting from April 4 of that year, all public and private payments, transactions, and contract bills will be in silver dollars, and silver dollars will be discontinued. The smooth implementation of "abolishing the two and changing the yuan" has realized the uniform shape, weight and fineness of the silver dollar that is circulated throughout the country, greatly simplified the types of currencies, and improved the disordered state of China's currency market.It also cleared the obstacles to currency disorder for the abolition of coins in China and the further implementation of legal currency reform.

Fourth, the Chinese government's writing reform has been appreciated by major Western countries such as Britain and the United States, and has received their technical support. Representatives include Ganmal and Younger in the United States, and Li Zi?Ross and other economic experts.

Lao Jiang's original plan was to announce the reform of the currency system later this year, but due to Japan's aggressiveness in North China and the mature technology, he decided to advance the reform plan ahead of schedule.

Lao Jiang's life style is quite simple, and the hospitality for Qin Dechun is only four dishes and one soup.During the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek exchanged views with Qin Dechun on the current domestic and foreign situation, and finally said earnestly: The current national defense construction has not yet been completed, and we cannot fully resist Japan. We must buy time. The longer it lasts, the greater the contribution to the country. It is necessary to bear the burden of humiliation, but this matter can only be reported to Commander Song and not to others; oil is a strategic resource, which is related to the lifeline of the country. If the country wants to develop and the army wants to be strong, it can only be exerted if it is firmly controlled by the central government. It should be effective, please tell this statement to Commander Song. I hope that the generals of the 29th Army must put the overall situation first and understand the painstaking efforts of the central government; the reform of legal currency is a major issue related to the national economy and people's livelihood. The decision of the central government is to do everything possible to carry out this reform, so as to cut off the way for Japan to plunder the wealth of North China and destroy the economy of North China.

Historically, Qin Dechun changed his opinion of Chiang Kai-shek because of his heart-to-heart words, so he decided to follow the "central government" until he retreated to Taiwan.However, perhaps because of Ouyang Yun's appearance, or because Ren Qiuyou was discovered in advance to be a hindrance, his perception of Lao Jiang's words was completely different, so he was not as moved as described in the historical script He threw himself into the ground and pledged allegiance to the death, but took the opportunity to propose that since the 29th Army is a member of the national army and the central government has recognized its status in North China, it should fully trust the 29th Army and hand over Hebei to the 29th Army. It is hoped that the central government can strengthen the armament of the 29th Army so that it can maintain the stability of the situation in North China, and the cadet division will still be handed over to the 29th Army for management.

Lao Jiang was very unhappy to see Qin Dechun being so ignorant, but as a leader, he was not as knowledgeable as Qin Dechun, so he proposed that the central government could give the 29th Army a considerable amount of military resources to subsidize the loss of the cadets, but the cadets must Transferred to the establishment of the 51st Army.

Qin Dechun did not dare to tear himself apart with Lao Jiang face to face, so he could only say that he could not decide on this matter, and had to go back and ask Song Zheyuan and other generals of the 29th Army to make up their minds, but he would try his best to explain the good intentions of the chairman when he went back. Don't worry, the generals of the 29th Army will definitely live up to the expectations of the Central Committee, and will be able to firmly control North China in the hands of the Chinese.

What he said was tricky, and Lao Jiang knew it was the truth, so he had no choice but to entertain him, and his lover sent him back to Peiping politely.

(End of this chapter)

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